In the final MusicNOW concert of the season\, Cliff Colnotco
nducts musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in works by Andrew Norm
an\, Anna Clyne and Oscar Bettison. Norman’s work for string trio\, The
Companion Guide to Rome\, gives us nine mediations on the architectur
e of Roman churches. Clyne’s solo cello work\,Fits + Starts\, inclu
des choreography by Kitty McNamee from the Los Angeles-based Hysterica Dan
ce Company. The closing piece on this program\, Bettison’s Livre des Sa
uvages\, is a musical paraphrase of the eponymous book\, a text roughl
y two hundred years old and of unknown origin describing the lives of nati
ve peoples in a mixture of fact and fiction.